Neoliberal frontiers
Subtitle: an ethnography of sovereignty in West Africa
By: Brenda Chalfin.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226100593; 9780226100616
Subjects: Ghana. -- Customs, Excise, and Preventive Service; Neoliberalism -- Ghana; Neoliberalism -- Africa, West; Customs administration -- Ghana; Customs administration -- Africa, West; Sovereignty
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward an anthropology of neoliberal sovereignty; title: Customs as effective sovereign : state logics across time and place; title: Anthropologies of the state : marrying ethnography and political economy; title: Histories and tactics of territorial sovereignty : thinking through the border; title: The sovereignty of good governance : bureaucratic contests and the recentering power; title: The properties of popular sovereignty : customs and corruption, cars, and democratic discourse; title: Technologies of sovereignty : the politics and phenomenology of privatized rule on the maritime frontier; title: Affective sovereignty : airport anthropology and the shifting contours of citizenship; title: Working the border : neoliberal sovereignty in comparative perspective.